Setting Yourself Up for Coaching Success
Coaching is an opportunity to grow with clarity, accountability, and purpose. When approached with intention, it becomes a catalyst for confidence, awareness, and real-world progress.
Be Proactive
Own your development journey. Take initiative, set meaningful goals, and drive your own progress.
Prepare with Purpose
Reflect before each session. Identify challenges and opportunities so your discussions stay focused and valuable.
Apply and Reflect
Turn insight into practice. Experiment, review outcomes, and refine your approach for continuous improvement.
Stay Curious
Ask questions, challenge assumptions, and remain open to feedback. Growth thrives on curiosity.
Engage Fully
Bring your best energy to every session. Coaching is a partnership that works when both sides are all in.
Own Your Impact
Recognise how your behaviour and choices influence others. Leadership starts with self-awareness and action.
Build Momentum
Keep the learning alive between sessions. Capture wins, track insights, and use them to shape next steps.
Lead with Intention
Connect your personal purpose to your professional goals. Intentional leadership inspires commitment and trust.
Celebrate Progress
Acknowledge what’s working. Recognising achievements fuels motivation and confidence for what comes next.
Getting the Most from Your Coaching Program
Coaching and mentoring provide an excellent opportunity to improve your self-awareness, leadership capability, influence, and relationships with others. You will gain valuable insight and growth, as long as you remain focused, intentional, and committed to applying what you learn.
Every conversation is a moment of choice - to stay the same or to grow. Approach each coaching session with energy, honesty, and curiosity. Growth is not a phase; it is a practice.
The framework below outlines three simple steps that form the foundation of an effective coaching experience. These principles will help you translate awareness into sustained performance and growth.
1. Create Your Agenda
Shape each session around what you have practised, learned, or been challenged by. Your agenda drives relevance, accountability, and progress.
2. Capture Your Insights
Make notes during and between sessions. Record what resonated, how your actions worked, what shifted, and what needs further focus.
3. Practice Mindfully
Coaching is an active process. Apply your insights, observe your habits, and focus on how you lead — not just what you do or why you do it.
Pre-Program Actions
Before your first coaching and mentoring session, you have a few key actions and reflections to complete. The first set helps you connect with the program and its tools. The second encourages deeper thinking about your goals, direction, and priorities.
Read Our CS Brochure
Before starting your coaching and mentoring program, take time to read the Coaching & Mentoring Brochure. It provides context, expectations, and answers to common questions from past participants.
View BrochureRead and Reflect on Our Summary Blog
The Engagement and Motivating Employees blog introduces two CS core models relevant to your coaching journey. Note what resonates most and bring your reflections to your first session.
Read BlogComplete Our CS Self-Awareness Questionnaire
Complete the CoachStation Self-Awareness Questionnaire. A copy of your responses will be shared with both of us and will guide our first session discussion.
Start QuestionnaireExplore Our CS CoachBot
CS CoachBot provides AI-based coaching prompts, insights, and development support between sessions. It draws from all CS resources and tools to help you extend your learning.
Explore CoachBotPre-Program Reflection
These four short reflections will help you think about where you are now and what you want to achieve through coaching. They build clarity, focus, and readiness before we begin.
1. Complete Your Reflection
Take time to think about where you are now — your strengths, challenges, and what success might look like over the coming months.
2. Clarify Your Goals
Outline your leadership, personal, or career objectives. Clarity here shapes the focus of your coaching journey.
3. Review the Program Overview
Read through the key elements of the coaching and mentoring program so you understand the process and expectations.
4. Prepare for Your First Session
Note down any questions, challenges, or priorities you wish to discuss. Preparation helps us maximise our time together.
How Is Coaching Success Defined and Measured?
What makes a coaching session genuinely developmental rather than simply useful? A practical look at how real leadership growth shows up in behaviour, not just insight. My internal coaching scale is not about judgement or overthinking.
It is calibrated pattern recognition built through long exposure, real feedback, and one question that matters: how much has my coachee/client grown and developed?
Stop Rescuing, Start Leading: Managing the Victim Mindset
Many leaders fall into rescuing team members instead of leading them. Every leader eventually meets a team member who plays the victim. Nothing is ever their fault, every hurdle comes from someone else, and solutions always feel just out of reach. These patterns drain energy, slow progress, and can infect an entire team if left unaddressed. The truth is, no amount of empathy or ‘fixing’ will create change until accountability enters the conversation.
How CS CoachBot Helps Our Clients & Coachees
CS CoachBot gives you on-demand coaching and mentoring support, clarity, and tools to lead with confidence, no matter the challenge. The tool has been purpose-built using real coaching insights, resources, and frameworks developed by CoachStation over many years. It draws on our leadership philosophy, proven coaching models, tools, resources, and hundreds of real client scenarios.
Escape the Drama Triangle – Change the Script
Let’s talk about something that plays out for all of us daily. Sometimes hourly. It’s called the Drama Triangle, and once you see it, you can’t unsee it. The Drama Triangle was first developed by Stephen Karpman, and it maps out three common roles people tend to fall into when they’re under pressure, emotionally charged, or just stuck in unhelpful patterns.
Finding Your Ikigai Or Purpose In life
Ikigai, translating to “a reason for being,” is a concept that encapsulates the essence of living a fulfilled and balanced life. It offers an approach to living, blending joy, purpose, and balance into every day. Ikigai encourages us to live with a clear sense of direction and with gratitude. If you’re searching for meaning or wishing to deepen understanding of yourself, Ikigai provides a framework for improvement.
Conversations With Leaders: Wes Davis
Different industries require subtle differences in style and how leaders impact their teams and results. As part of our occasional series chatting with industry leaders, we recently spoke with engineer and senior leader, Wes Davis. His story is an interesting one, with Wes focusing much of his time and development on the topic of leadership within engineering, rather than simply learning and applying the technical aspects.
